Download or read book Understanding Complex Military Operations written by Karen Guttieri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations. Today, America faces security challenges unlike any it has faced before, many of which requiring lengthy U.S. involvement in stability operations. These challenges are exceedingly dynamic and complex because of the ever changing mix and number of actors involved, the pace with which the strategic and operational environments change, and the constraints placed on response options. This volume presents a series of case studies to inspire active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations. The case studies highlight dilemmas pertaining to the story of the case (case dilemma) and to its larger policy implications (policy dilemma). The cases stimulate readers to "get inside the heads" of case protagonists with widely differing cultural backgrounds, professional experiences, and individual and organisational interests. Overall, Understanding Complex Military Operations challenges the reader to recognize the importance of specific national security related issues and their inherent dilemmas, deduce policy implications, and discern lessons that might apply to other – perhaps even non-security related – areas of public policy, administration, and management. This volume will be of much interest to students of conflict prevention, transitional justice, peacebuilding, security studies and professionals conducting field-based operations in potentially hazardous environments.

Download or read book Let Me Get Used to This written by Real Thoughts and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This body of poetry is to set the tone towards real life situations and circumstances. What you read, it’s okay to feel. These poems create visions as videos in your mind. To create a wonder of fiction or nonfiction. Guaranteed to entertain and give you best “conversation starters “ and quotes.

Download or read book The Heart and Mind of Escobar Ramirez Returns written by Andrew ‘’YIE’’ Roberts and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escobar Ramirez is a Colombian Drug Lord who is viciously murdered and found in his water fountain located inside his mansion. When the EMT's and Police arrive, they pull his body out of the water and find he has a very vague heart beat. Must be due to the cocaine his body consumed. They rush him to the Hospital and he's pronounced D.O.A. (dead on arrival) To find his identity, they search his personal property and find an organ donors card. They donate as requested two of his organs to a Organ Donor University. His Heart is given to a Black boy the age of ten. His brain is given to a Black girl who is born brain dead. When these two kids receive their organs, their organs begin taking control over their bodies and starts guiding, molding and training them so they can be able to build an army big, strong and equipped enough for them to seek revenge on the people that killed him.

Download or read book Where Is the Love written by Mary Serena Stovall "FIFI" and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Is the Love? By: Mary Serena Stovall “FIFI” What the world needs now is lots of love! Through our trials and tribulations, our heartache and pain, we must always remember the little things in life. Where Is the Love? is a delightful little collection of true stories by FIFI, her kindergarten class, and her “Babys.” Read this collection with your little ones to remind yourself of the most important things in life.

Download or read book Fall of a Righteous Man written by Waist Deep and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waist Deep's writings have been called soul-stirring, heartwarming, intoxicating, and a God-given talent. He is able to put words into a thousand pictures to captivate his readers'minds and awaken their imaginations. In his first book, Fall of a Righteous Man, Waist Deep delivers an inspirational and passion-filled insight into one couple's merged desires to possess the American dream and the journey of forgotten promises, betrayal and true test of faith that follow.

Download or read book The Girls of No Return written by Erin Saldin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cut meets Hatchet in this lacerating debut about girls, knives, and redemption. The Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area stretches across two million acres in northern Idaho. In its heart sits the Alice Marshall School, where fifty teenage girls come to escape their histories and themselves. Lida Wallace has tried to negate herself in every way possible. At Alice Marshall, she meets Elsa Boone, a fierce native Idahoan; Jules, who seems too healthy to belong at the school; and Gia Longchamps, whose glamour entrances the entire camp. As the girls prepare for a wilderness trek, Lida is both thrilled and terrified to be chosen as Gia's friend. But everyone has their secrets--their "Things" they try to protect; and when those come out, the knives do as well. The Girls of No Return is a bold and powerful debut.

Download or read book Finding Myself A Journey Through My Soul written by Gianna Bates and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a poetry book that shares stories about my life, and all things that I'm passionate about. It contains poems that will take you on journeys of ups and downs, and explore trials and tribulations. Every poem has meaning, and I hope that the poems are able to inspire and resonate with others in the same ways they have for me.

Download or read book The Big Payback written by T. J. Denton and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.J. Denton's The Big Payback is a unique chronicle of the success achieved by an honest man who faithfully served his country during wartime, saving lives in the process. Thomas Dugnal, a former Marine, is a father of four with lovely wife, Beverly, whom he adores. Through hard work and diligence over the years, Thomas and Beverly have built several successful businesses, including T&B Fitness Center. Finally, after all their years of living right and working hard, they were just about to take their fitness business national, but one night - one mistake - and, in the blink of an eye, it all changed. They lost everything...their whole world was turned upside down and their family in danger. Thomas masterminds a plan to take back what is his and, with the support of his trusted company of former Marines, goes on an intense, complicated mission. This is when the adrenaline flows as they place this dangerous plot into action. You won't believe how this all plays out...

Download or read book The Mirror Shattered Midnight written by Dhonielle Clayton and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mirror: Shattered Midnight is the second novel in the innovative four-book fairy-tale series written by Julie C. Dao, Dhonielle Clayton, J.C. Cervantes, and L. L. McKinney, following one family over several generations, and the curse that plagues it. Zora Broussard has arrived in New Orleans with not much more than a bag of clothes, a beautiful voice, and a pair of enchanted red shoes. Running from a tragic accident caused by her magic, Zora wants nothing more than to blend in, as well as to avoid her overbearing aunt and mean-spirited cousins. Music becomes Zora's only means of escape, yet she wonders if she should give it all up to remove the powers that make her a target, especially as a Black woman in the South. But when Zora gets the chance to perform in a prominent jazz club, she meets a sweet white pianist named Phillip with magic of his own, including a strange mirror that foretells their future together. Falling into a forbidden love, Zora and Phillip must keep their relationship a secret. And soon the two discover the complicated connection between their respective families, a connection that could lead to catastrophe for them both. In the era of segregation and speakeasies, Zora must change her destiny and fight for the one she loves . . . or risk losing everything.

Download or read book You Coming Back written by Victoria Hudson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Coming Back? By: Victoria Hudson In the three-part You Coming Back?, Victoria Hudson undertakes several endeavors, each one unique. The combination of fiction and non-fiction will take you from Aliens arriving on earth to short stories of her twenty plus years in security then closing with over four thousand names of victims of some of the most horrendous crimes in America. Starting as a science fiction story and later evolving into short stories of her personal accounts in security, Hudson’s book ends with those who worked to save lives, ensuring the reader does not forget the risk behind the job.

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1947-01-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book The First Paper Girl in Red Oak Iowa written by Elizabeth Stuckey-French and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the stories in her first collection, Elizabeth Stuckey-French establishes herself as a smart new voice in American fiction and stakes her claim to a territory somewhere on the edge of stability, where normal is not just boring but nearly impossible, and where standing out in a crowd may just cause isolation. Her characters, mostly Midwesterners, are bizarre but endearing. A reform school graduate is placed in the care of her psychic aunt and in the servitude of a lucrative dog retrieval scheme. A mother who has accepted her son’s modest employment selling blue jeans bemoans the above-board lifestyle she discovers him leading as a wanted criminal. A rehab counselor lives vicariously through her already pregnant stepdaughter’s love affair with a drunk who spends his days in recovery and his nights in the bar. Full of wry wit, tender sympathy, and heartland attitude, The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa is as strange, funny, and poignant as the real world it resembles.

Download or read book The Amethyst Heart written by Penelope J. Stokes and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2005-10-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she discovers her son has designs to sell her home out from under her, Miss Amethyst-ninety-three years old and as sharp as ever-isn't about to let her legacy go. She pins her hopes on her granddaughter, Little Am, a good-natured child who has mutated in her teenage years into something else altogether. Whatever it takes, Little Am will know that the Noble family heritage is worth fighting for.

Download or read book My Thoughts and Inspirations written by H. A. Geiffin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I currently reside in Lathrop, Ca with my wife and children. I was born in New Orleans, LA July 20, 1966 to Lena Mae Griffin and Harris Elmore. I am the seventh of eight children whom are as different as night and day. We moved to Oakland, CA when i was about 5 yrs old. Most of my life was spent in Oakland and Berkeley where I was considered exceptional and gifted. I was later introduce to Mrs. Jenkins, a high school teacher, who thought it best to challenge me by asking me to write a poem for Black History month. Later that turned into editing the school newspaper whereas I was the journalist, photographer, sportswriter, and any other position needed to produce the paper. She also put on a play, Raisin in the Sun in which I enjoyed due to the fact I was a very sheltered person and it allowed others to see another side of me. Throughout the years I have entered poetry contest and passed around my writings on the street, and now I feel the need to share my thoughts and ideas with everyone else. Hope you enjoy and appreciate what I have to offer. God bless and be safe.

Download or read book Give Me A Texas Outlaw written by Linda Broday and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fearless and irresistible, outlaws are the original bad boys. Now New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas and Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWanna Pace offer up four sexy and romantic stories for women who love men who know how to pack heat. . . If Cozette Camanez's groom doesn't show up for their wedding by dawn, she'll lose her family ranch. Trouble is, the groom doesn't exist-until unsuspecting thief Michael Hughes comes along. Never was an outlaw faced with such a lovely-and willing-target. . . Larissa Patrick, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher, has been kidnapped. Only one man can save her: gunfighter Johnny Bravo. Rescuing Larissa is the easy part-but getting her home without losing his heart will take the discipline of a saint. And Johnny's no saint. . . Lawman Ethan Kimble is finally face to face with his quarry: socialite and bank robber Savannah Parker. The only thing between them is a Winchester pointed at his heart-and some undeniable sparks. If Kimble can tame the Texas Flame, they may ignite a passion that breaks every rule. . . When outlaw Shadow Rivers and desperado Odessa Kilmore escape a hail of bullets and team up on a long journey, both are determined to hide their secrets-and their attraction. No easy task as they discover a love more powerful than their enemies combined. . . "Readers couldn't ask for a finer quartet of heroes." –Romantic Times on Give Me a Texas Ranger

Download or read book Lysa written by Karin Breuer and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lysa" is the story of a woman caught in an abusive marriage. Awaiting her inevitable death by her drunken spouse, Lysa, in desperation, cries out to a God she is not sure is there. It is a story that has touched the lives of many women, a story of love and betrayal, a story of strength and hope.

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